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Infomercial for the Empire

Infomercial for The Empire Cindy Sheehan Twenty-Ten is a midterm election year, the Dems are hurting very badly—Obama needed to pull some propaganda out of his bag of tricks and he needed to be able to pronounce every word correctly so he base can say: “At least he’s articulate.” I can just envision the weeks leading up to this: “Joe, you wear the blue-striped tie—Barry, you wear the red-striped tie—and Nancy, you get a botox shot, but make sure you can move your face a little before the speech.” Of course it was not a state of the union address: It was a giant infomercial for The Empire—at one point he even said: “I won't accept second place for the United States of America.” Well, the USA is number one in killing people—biggest terrorist state in decades—we have no peers in this aspect. We are even higher than number one here, if that’s possible—we are the SUPER-COUNTRY and killing is our SUPER POWER! The USA spends more on defense than the next ten lo

POSTCARDS FROM THE EMPIRE: CINDY SHEEHAN'S NEW COLUMN IN CORREO DEL ORINOCO

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Somos americanos I was born in the U.S. in 1957. I was born a subject of the world’s most lethal Empire. When did the U.S. become an Empire? Ask our indigenous people that question. I was also born in a Myth-ocracy, where we are propagandized from Day One about how we live in the “Greatest Nation in History” and that our neighbors in Latin America are lucky to have the U.S. so close in proximity so we can “save” the people from their “dictators.” Also, here in The Empire, many people believe that the “commons” that exist in Latin America are not really for the people in that region, but for the U.S.—and we will be happy to “liberate” the resources and land from our poorer and less intelligent Latin brothers and sisters. These myths need to be dispelled—and very quickly. If you asked me even five years ago what I thought I would be doing today, one of those things would not have been writing a weekly column for a newspaper in Venezuela! Of course, after C

A LOST CAUSE IS THE ONLY CAUSE WORTH FIGHTING FOR---

MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON

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MYTH AMERICA II: MAKING SANITY THE NEW NORMAL

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Myth America II: 20 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Since Myth America: 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution was published, our situation has not improved. In Myth America II , I detail these fresh assaults on Peace, Justice and the Environment and (even more importantly) give fresh solutions on what we can and must to do survive the crimes of the Robber Class! If you pre-ordered Myth America II online or at an event, you should have the book in your inbox today--if you don't, check your spam filter, and if you still didn't receive it, please email me at: CindysSoapbox@gmail.com--we are on the honor system here, so I will take your word for it! Myth America II has been professionally edited and formatted to include illustrations and most of the bugs from Myth America I have been worked out. Michele (editor), Josh (formatter) and I are very pro

Let the Sunshine

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Let the Sunshine Cindy Sheehan We starve-look At one another Short of breath Walking proudly in our winter coats Wearing smells from laboratories Facing a dying nation Of moving paper fantasy Listening for the new told lies With supreme visions of lonely tunes Hair: The Flesh Failures I went to a performance of the musical, Hair, last night in New York City. I wonder how I would have reacted to the show before Casey was killed—before the insanity of war became my “new normal?” The original production of Hair debuted in 1967 when the Vietnam War was increasing in carnage and the counter-culture opposing it was also growing. I was 10. I remember hearing The Age of Aquarius covered by the 5th Dimension for the first time and not even knowing my Zodiac sign—I quickly discovered that I am a Cancer and everything that meant. The Beatles had already mainstreamed long hair, so when the Cowsills sang the main song from the musical, it appeared cute and fun

DRONES KILL KIDS AND OTHER SOAPBOX NEWS---

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DRONES KILL KIDS Cindy Sheehan I have become increasingly distressed about the expanded use of drones in the USA’s War OF Terror—as I oppose “manned aerial vehicles” that target and kill civilians--I find “unmanned aerial vehicles” particularly morally reprehensible. This past Saturday, about 175 people joined us at CIA HQ in Langley, VA for a protest against the CIA’s usage of this deadly drone technology in North-West Pakistan that has been responsible for killing over 100 times more civilians than “suspected” al Qaeda or Taliban militants. After a story came out from the Associated Press that said we were out there protesting the fact that CIA drones targeted the “al Qaeda and Taliban,” (AP printed a "clarification) I have received dozens of emails attacking me for supporting "terrorists" over the lives of our military. First of all, we DO protest the fact that the CIA is involved in, not "para-military" missions, but full-on military

SLIDE SHOW FOR CIA PROTEST AND BANNER DROP AT SMITHSONIAN

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DRONES KILL KIDS: PEACE OF THE ACTION BANNER DROP

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Today (January 17th) some members of Peace of the Action hung this banner near the killer-drone exhibit at the Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Robby Diesu (DC Coordinator) and Cindy Sheehan hung the banner while Joshua Smith (Media coordinator/co-organizer) and Mike Hearington (VFP liaison) took pics and video and singer/songwriter, David Rovics kept watch. We hung the banner and hung around and watched people watch it for about 5 minutes before it got taken down--then we left. Many families there with children--taking in the Military hardware and mostly not thinking that others are suffering so badly!

PEACE OF THE ACTION DEMANDS A RETRACTION FROM THE AP

January 14, 2010 To: Associated Press CC: Jessica Gresko RE: Misleading article about the January 16 th protest at CIA Headquarters From: Cindy Sheehan representing Peace of the Action. Yesterday, Peace of the Action Coalition organized a protest in front of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va. Ms. Gresko, from the AP was out there for the entire time. She interviewed myself, all of the other speakers and some of those in attendance. We feel that all of the speakers at the event and the stated reason for the protest were very clear—we were there protesting the cowardly and immoral use of drones by the CIA that actually kill about one-hundred times more innocent civilians than “suspected terrorists.” Since Ms. Gresko’s story came out falsely declaring that we were there to protest the use of drones on “al Qaeda and Taliban,” I have received dozens of hate mails, one of which even ca
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Here at Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox, our hearts go out to the people of Haiti who have had to endure so much in their country and who are now devastated by the mind-boggling tragedy of the recent earthquake. There are many organizations that are collecting money and gathering relief supplies, but Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox supports (monthly, not just currently) Doctors Without Borders No matter how badly off we are (or are not), here in the U.S., we have it much better than the people in the poorest nation in our hemisphere. Please be as generous as you can. ****************************** ************ Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox is pleased that the crisis in Haiti is getting so much corporate and other media attention, but the U.S. is creating other humanitarian disasters in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Millions of people have been made refugees from our wars of aggression and particularly now in the IDP (Int

Happy First Anniversary to Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox!

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Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox at: www.CindySheehansSoapbox.com It's our Anniversary! Against all odds and many obstacles we have been able to stay on the air and deliver high quality shows! With Twenty-Ten being the YEAR OF RESISTANCE, the Soapbox will become an integral part of true change to benefit WE THE PEOPLE for once! Thank you for listening and supporting your Soapbox! _________________________ TODAY'S SHOW There has been disturbing news coming out of South America: The apparent U.S. support of the Honduran coup; Colombia signing a pact with the U.S. that will enable the U.S. to construct military bases there and the U.S. drone flights and fighter-plane flights over Venezuelan airspace. We all know that Vz sits on some of the largest oil reserves in the world and President Chavez has refused to privatize the industry and hand over his people's natural resources to Standard Oil o

WELCOME TO TWENTY-TEN: THE YEAR OF RESISTANCE!

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2010 THE YEAR OF RESISTANCE “ An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi Three events over the holidays have caused me great consternation and they proved to me that I am not so cynical and jaded that my government can't still shock me, if anything Of course, the first event has to be the “Crotch Bomber.” The Crotch Bomber story poses more questions than answers and, of course, Muttalabad has already been tried, convicted and virtually executed by our media who have formulated an open and shut case against him without questioning any details except for “lax” security at airports and possible intelligence "failures." Credible eye-witnesses have said from the beginning that Abdulmutallab was ushered through the system at Schilpol airport in Amsterdam (an airport I have flown through twice in the last month), by a "sharp dressed man"—but the problem is apparently that we have not been subjected to perverted full-body scans ever